Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christie was to be married at Easter , but Ann planned to go over in late February to help with the wedding preparations and also , to take Sarah and see her settled in before she started her job . |
| 2 | I have already discussed the notion of relative novelty in the course of an analysis of habituation ( Chapter 2 , pp. 44–5 ) and failed to come up with hard evidence that might require us to accept its reality . |
| 3 | Counterfeit car parts uncovered included fake brake pads which got mixed up with genuine ones , Mr Northcott said . |
| 4 | I was supposed to be running the operation but I got caught up with other business . |
| 5 | At times like that , you call on your mates , and Kenny Everett kindly got us out of a spot of trouble there and agreed to come on at short notice . |
| 6 | Objective probability applies to those events which have been tested previously and found to come up with consistent results . |
| 7 | Everything he designed stood out in majestic size , and in every way passed beyond human values into the transcendent . |
| 8 | And when the walls came tumbling down in Eastern Europe at the end of 1989 to reveal cowering and bitter populations , overflowing prisons and mental hospitals , ruthless armies of secret police and state informers , corrupt politicians and equality in misery only , they might have wondered how their parents could have given even a second thought to the self-evidently corrupt , ruthless and authoritarian appeal of the ideal of ‘ World Communism ’ . |
| 9 | JUST WHEN you 'd given up on Italian House , along come more chattering piano breaks and gusty female vocals to drag you back onto your feet . |
| 10 | And yet there was something so powerfully rebuking , and at the same time so unassailable about his figure looming over them that Mr Charles 's two drunken companions seemed to cower back like small boys caught by the farmer in the act of stealing apples . |
| 11 | Every night , he seemed to go out to posh nightclubs , to restaurants and to major pop concerts . |
| 12 | As for Edward — it was clear that I 'd stumbled on to sensitive ground . |
| 13 | The five Kenny children came crowding round like little goblins , dirty and ragged , but squealing happily . |
| 14 | Last autumn he won round one when President Bush appointed him to lead a cabinet ‘ empowerment task force ’ , told to come up with specific proposals . |
| 15 | And more than that , I 'd grown up with divorced parents and I do think kids need a mother and a father . ’ |
| 16 | Women passengers who 'd nodded off in full make-up emerged with faces crumpled and ankles swollen . |
| 17 | The face was long and pale , with a shaggy beard and eyes that seemed to look out from deep hollows . |
| 18 | Like a pebble in a well-shaft , the words fell into the void and then came rushing back from invisible walls , echoing above the roar of the water : ‘ it is death … is death … is death ! ’ |
| 19 | RCN said the SAM pilot had to stop so suddenly that luggage came flying out of overhead compartments . |
| 20 | And came running back in stark terror a few minutes later as if all the hounds of hell were after him , and Preston , who thought they were , a half-length behind all the way back to the alley behind their two houses where they stopped to get their breath back before they went in . |
| 21 | The South Sussex team was also more than compensated by the rock solidarity of a boy called Paul Hedley at back , and the dazzling Sherwood brothers , Randolph and Merlin , who 'd pulled out of high goal polo for a fortnight to piss it up with the Pony Club . |
| 22 | Last night 's mess and a more tidy visit this afternoon when he came to see whether we 'd stocked up with illegal drugs on our trip to Nice . ’ |
| 23 | As was mentioned in Chapter 3 , the American decision to sell grain once more to the Soviet Union in 1977 wiped out the Soil Bank established in the 1970s and caused ploughing up of marginal land and a marked increase in erosion rates ( Cook 1983 ) . |
| 24 | That 's if we 'd gone in on fixed price on scaled fee |
| 25 | They 'd crossed a highway while there was no traffic , they 'd blundered around in damp undergrowth , scurrying away from every chirp and mysterious croak , and finally they 'd found the plastic . |
| 26 | ‘ We found him in bed in his study , his face turned to the window , where the sun came streaming in through flowering plants … |
| 27 | He won their favour in the wake of last year 's Anita Hill case when he vowed to clamp down on sexual discrimination and harassment in the workplace . |
| 28 | However , Mrs Thompson vowed to fight on for other landlords even if time ran out for she and her husband . |
| 29 | ALLY McCOIST last night declared himself fit for tomorrow 's European Cup match against CSKA Moscow — and vowed to make up for lost time . |
| 30 | The Joint Commission soon became bogged down in renewed argument over the eligibility of various groups for consultation , with the Russians reiterating refusal to consult rightists currently denouncing the Soviet Union vehemently and demonstrating noisily in Seoul . |